For some reason it has HTML from my blog post at the top, and the ellipses (...) in the first post appears in the feed as …

I'm trying to add many articles with different past dates and want to sort by this date and its nearly impossible

For new folks it's nice to go right into creating a new feed. But once you have established a feed/feeds, you want to keep adding items to those feeds - not create a new feed every time you land.